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...presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention, and has since held carefully stacked House subcommittee hearings on integration in the District of Columbia's schools (TIME, Oct.1). In Kentucky's Sixth District, Fayette County's Republican Sheriff Wallace ("Wah Wah") Jones, 30, is making headway against Democratic Incumbent John Watts, 54-Reason: Wah Wah's reputation as a star on Kentucky's famously infamous 1948-49 basketball team.*In Virginia's hot "Fighting Ninth" District, Republican William Wampler, a Representative in 1952 at 26, defeated in 1954, is a strong challenger against Incumbent Democrat...
...doubts about Stevenson's ability to make real headway with his program of 1952--which this paper heartily endorsed at the time--have led to our general approval of many words and actions taken by President Eisenhower during the last four years. For by his own enunciated domestic and foreign policies, the President has effectively consolidated the domestic and foreign gains achieved under 20 years of Democratic rule. Candidate Eisenhower promised in 1952 that he would not turn the clock back, and he did not. What concerns us now, however, is that the time for consolidation has passed: those...
Other Winthrop touchdowns were scored by Owen Todd and Ed Fogarty in the first quarter, London in the second, and Fogarty again in the fourth. John Baldwin made two conversions, while King, Holmes and Fogarty each made one. The undermanned Lowell squad was unable to make any headway throughout the game...
Standouts for the freshmen were Walter Saxe at goal, Langley Keyes, left fullback, and Bill Rapp, center half. The agile Exeter goalie and the school's tight line prevented the freshmen from making much headway, although the ball was in Exeter territory about half the time...
After 82 Years, Ferment. Sold to a group of bankers who lacked the Welch blend of virtue and hard-sell, the company made little headway after Dr. Charles' death in 1926. In mid-Depression, the ailing grape-juice industry was rescued by a Welch competitor, Jacob M. Kaplan, a self-made molasses mogul who had bought control of Hearn's department store in New York. After buying a small upstate New York winery in 1933, to supply Hearn's liquor department, quick-moving, fast-talking Jack Kaplan decided to concentrate on grape-juice production instead. He started...